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The shoe on fire is an age-old joke in the US that used to be called giving someone a "hot foot"--often by sticking one or two matches in the shoe and lighting them.
When you play 162 games and there is time to kill, fun things happen. In the hotfoot clip for the Dodgers, the manager (Don Mattingly) was right there watching it happen and laughing.
You guys should react to Adrian Beltre he was in this video a couple times and he was one of the most fun players in baseball history while also being one of the greatest third basemen of all time
Joe Kelly (of the Cardinals) had a thing where he would stay standing after the national anthem until everyone else started going back into their dugouts. Van Slyke (of the Dodgers) stayed out there as a result and see who would leave first. It actually led to the playoff game being delayed by like 15 minutes.
Lighting the cleats on fire always makes me laugh. I also remember Pedro Martinez getting duck tapped to a poll in the Red Sox dugout for a entire game.
The HotFoot has been around for quite a while. I know that Bert Blyleven was fond of handing them out, and he played in the 70s and 80s. Baseball players are just overgrown 7th graders, and I mean that as a compliment.
Been a long time coming , as a young teen in the early 70s I used to watch them from left field bleachers in old Turnpike stadium and for three years I sold concessions in the stands at Texas stadium for every cowboys game pre season and playoffs watching Tom Landry, Roger staubach and the boys
3:47 White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen was poking fun at David Ortiz's bunt and lack of speed by illustrating his need for a wheelchair. (Ortiz was a power hitter who almost never bunted.)
For a little more context at ~12 minutes in, when Bartolo Colon is batting, keep in mind that all the way up until 2022, there was no designated hitter in the National League so pitchers also batted (leading to many pitch-hitters in late innings). Most were pretty bad, sometimes comically so -- a few were OK at it. Anyway, Bartolo was a pitcher, and on top of that spent most of his career in the American League where he had never had to bat.
Big Sexy is so good. Still love him holding the record for 'oldest player to ever hit their first homerun' at just 16 days short of 43. Glad that if he did it for any team, it was for the Mets, and the announcers call of it was nothing short of perfection. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OVFsq9FQBlc.html
Side note: Was a nice little treat hearing Vin Scully for a sec during one of the clips. You should listen to his "Field of Dreams" speech. Brings a tear to my eyes.
"Hot foot" is a very old baseball prank, not seen often these days. You tape a matchbook to the players cleats and light it on fire without him noticing. Dangerous? Yes. Hilarious? Also yes.
The secret joke and context of Chris Archer mic'd up in the dugout is the coach he was trying to goad into talking to him: George Hendrick. Or..."Silent George" as he was known when Hendrick was a ballplayer. Apparently in his 3rd season, Hendrick felt like he'd been badly misquoted saying something about a teammate and vowed from then on to NEVER speak to anyone in the media. When he played in St. Louis for 5 or 6 years, the local media guys got along great with him, and said he was one of the nicest, kindest people in the clubhouse...but just never ask him for an interview. He'll shake his head and walk away. So...that was Chris Archer, aware that his coach is Silent George Hendrick, trying to get the big guy to say something on his open mic and break his longstanding vow...
The little things like the Standoff or never touching the foul line is that thread we share with players all the way back to the 19th century. It’s why it’s tolerated, also it’s very rare.
Jose, Yadier, and Benji Molina were 3 brothers who played in the big leagues at the same time. All 3 were catchers! Yadier played his whole career with the St.Louis Cardinals (the youngest) and just retired. His career was Hall of Fame caliber. Benji played with the San Francisco Giants. Jose played with several different teams (here with the Tampa Bay Rays). They're all retired now.
Back in the 1970s and 80s there was a well-known weekly show called "This Week in Baseball". It had a memorable host and gave a fun review of the previous week in major league baseball with highlights and bloopers. Many of episodes can easily be found. You will also see many of the gags that the players did in your video.
Before they changed the rules, pitchers would go to bat without their designated hitter batting for them. Trevor Bauer is a pitcher who is having fun at the plate imitating his teammates batting stances.
At the beginning of baseball games, teams line up by their dugouts and stand for the singing of the national anthem. They go back to their dugouts at the conclusion so that the game can start. As a prank, these players waited to see who could stay on the field the longest, like a staring contest, before getting in trouble with the umpire.
The base runner is called out if they run outside of the baseline. It's determined by the subjective judgement of the umpire. Beltre knew that he was going to be tagged out but, for fun, ran away outside of the base line to avoid the tag, hoping he would get chased for a laugh.
0:48 - You are correct about this play, mostly. It's actually a pretty misunderstood rule. About as confusing and misunderstood as the infield fly rule. The rule is that the runner is not allowed to deviate more than 3 feet to either side of his established base path (an important distinction as it is not the base "line" as many announcers call it). The runner's base path is a direct line from the runners position at the start of the tag attempt to the next base they are attempting to gain (not just a direct line between the bases; the base line). So, IF the runner is on a direct path between bases, it IS a pretty safe bet that them getting to the grass means they are out of the base path but it's not always a guarantee. Even if you understand all that, there is the subjective nature of when exactly is the tag attempt initiated. Then there's the fun exercise of trying to determine if a 6 foot-something, 200-something pound professional athlete running at top speed and agility veered outside of a 6-foot-wide imaginary rectangle on the ground. In this instance, purely based on my subjective opinion and the camera angle here, I'd say Beltre is officially out once the shortstop receives the ball at 3rd and makes the initial reach to tag him. He's bolts directly away from the base which is a tell-tale sign that he's leaving his base path and he is probably already 3 feet away already at that point. For CERTAIN he's gone by the second lunge and that's when the umpire signals but he might have already made up his mind to call him out by that point. Then you know he called him out for running out of his base path by waving both of his hands to the side after giving the out call. 1:43 - Ah, the time-honored baseball prank called the hot foot. I honestly didn't know they were still doing this. It was a hit in the Mets dugout in the late 80's. Here's an example from an old VHS tape about how they made them. I think the idea is that the leather and cushion on the heel of a baseball shoe is pretty thick so it's not likely to hurt anyone but it always gets a huge laugh, especially if it goes off for a while without the person getting it noticing. (Yeah, 9:50 also gives you a good look at how the gum sticks the apparatus on there and the matches cause a sudden flare followed by a slow burn.) -- 11:25 - Yeah, I too am surprised it has persisted as long as it has but I've NEVER seen or heard of anyone getting physically hurt from it. 7:55 - They didn't actually hold up the game, at least not at first. There is plenty of stuff that goes on between the anthem and the first pitch, the longest of which is the home team taking the field and the starting pitcher getting his final warmup throws in from the mound. By the end of the clip, they were finally about to start the game when the umpires finally yelled at them to knock it off and head into the dugout. And despite what the broadcast said, neither would have been allowed to be out of the dugout no matter how far out so they both would have had to go. 14:39 - Not Miggy. That's Melky Cabrera who is Dominican and not related to the Venezuelan Miguel.
Lighting the cleats (boots) on fire is called hot foot around these parts, it's always hilarious if done right (as you know what happens if done wrong, lmao)
Usually, the lead off hitter in the 9 batter line up is the fastest runner on the team and has the job of getting on base in the beginning of the inning so that his teammates can move him up and score. They're usually good at bunting to get on base. Ortiz is a slow running power hitter so it's funny watching him trying to run out a bunt attempt. The manager in the other team's dugout was playfully mocking Ortiz because he doesn't have the skills of a lead-off hitter.
8:02 of context, Joe Kelly, the Cardinals guy had a thing where he was always the last person to sit down after the Anthem, the Dodgers' Van Slyke knew about this and did this Mexican Standoff with him. It got to the point both got ejected for Delay of Game.
The hotfoot goes WAY back in baseball and other sports... "... One year, Blyleven was playing a game in Seattle. His old teammate, Phil Roof, was the Mariners’ bullpen coach, and, rather unwisely, Roof had told Blyleven that he could not be gotten. So Blyleven did a little research on the Kingdome. He learned that from the dugout he could travel underneath the seats, then inch forward on the ground to reach Roof in the bullpen. “I went and got a hanger and extended it as far as I could, put some matches on the end of it, and I’m crawling on my hands and knees with the rats, I’m getting filthy,” Blyleven said. “I had to make sure they were his shoes and not some reliever’s. The phone rang and I could hear Phil’s voice and I said: ‘I got him.’ “It took me a couple innings. I hit my head numerous times, but it was worth it. I came out of there with our gray uniform almost black, but I accomplished my goal for the day.” When Howard Johnson was with the Mets, he and McDowell would team up to get first-base coach Bill Robinson, their favorite target. What took the pair’s hotfoots to the next level was the time-bomb element of their homemade contraptions. McDowell laid out how and Johnson made the devices: Take an unlit cigarette, a box of matches and gaffers tape Wrap the matches around the cigarette with the gaffers tape (gum can be substituted, although it must first be chewed thoroughly to create maximum stickiness) Light the cigarette and let it burn a little so it is not so long it touches the ground when put in place. Place the cigarette and matches on the heel of a teammate or coach’s shoe. It must be placed firmly enough that the tape sticks but not so firmly that the teammate or coach will feel it. “It’s a very precise thing,” McDowell said. Once placed, sit back and wait for the cigarette to light the matches, igniting a “little ball of fire.” “It’s very scientific,” McDowell said..." theathletic.com/1900259/2020/06/30/hot-foot-hot-tempers-inside-baseballs-love-affair-with-a-fiery-prank/
"...At its core, a hotfoot is the act of burning a shoe while it is on someone else’s foot. Under that broad umbrella, however, exist various subcultures. For example, Pete Incaviglia, a former outfielder with the Rangers and Phillies, carried around a squeezable mustard bottle filled with alcohol. He would walk by a teammate, squirt alcohol on his shoe and toss a match. Bert Blyleven, a baseball and hot-foot hall of famer, liked to light shoelaces on fire. Later in his career he preferred butane lighters for “better distance and accuracy.” Roger McDowell, the former Met who was called the “master of the hotfoot” and “Mr. Hotfoot himself,” developed a complex contraption that included matches, a cigarette and either chewed bubble gum or extra-strong gaffers tape to hold it all together on the heel of a shoe..."
"By most old accounts, the hotfoot was popularized by Pete Reilly, a boxing manager in the ’20s and ’30s who denied he’d invented the prank but claimed to have been the first - and perhaps only - person to hotfoot a fighter in his corner between rounds. Jack Dempsey, the former heavyweight champion, claimed in 1941 to have given more hotfoots than any man alive. As a newspaper reporter wrote, “It is impossible for him to attend a public function without getting down on all fours - even when he’s in full dress - and crawl beneath tables to give hotfoot after hotfoot.” All the great hotfoot artists shared that trait, a willingness to set aside societal norms and crawl on the ground like large children to strike their targets."
The last one had to do with the fact that Adrian Beltre HATES his head being touched...Which is unfortunate because once every team he is been on finds this out- his teammates immediately try to troll him by trying to touch his head for the rest of his time on the team
One of the funnest groups was the Cardinals w Wainwright. He was always such a jokester hed have the whole bench playing w him lol. This year wasnt quite the same but hes a class clown.
9:00 This part of the clip became a minor meme a few years ago because MLB played the clip of Ernie Johnson saying "Greg Gibson the homeplate umpire motioning to both players" at the end of a lot of their RU-vid videos, as a suggestion for what to watch next.
You could watch an entire video just of Adrian Beltre and Elvis Andrus touching his head and making him mad. Apparently he didn't like having his head touched but was too slow to catch Andrus 🤣 there's also some hilarious tim Lincecum clips. One is a gif of him tossing sunflower seeds by the handful at his own face.
Light hearted and heated moments are both good choices. Gotta def watch a separate video on Beltre the guys a riot, loves the game and loves being playful with other players.
You should react to win rookies hit the first home runs a lot of the teams dugouts well actually leave it empty or ignore the player when he comes back in the player will have to celebrate with himself… It’s like a hazing thing it’s hilarious
The cleat on fire is a dugout prank called "Hot Foot", where you use chewing gum to stick some matches on a players cleat and light it without them knowing.
The "hot foot" prank has been around a very long time in baseball. When you're away from your family for a long 6 month season, the team becomes your family. Players break up the monotonous day-to-day routine with pranks, jokes, etc to create a fun culture and express their creativity. There's a hierarchy among players; veterans prank the younger players as a "right of passage" for making it to The Show (big leagues). The veteran players set the culture in the club house: the type of music (if any) before and after the game, seating on the bus and plane, etc. You have to "pay your dues" to gain the respect of the veteran players. It's similar to the hierarchy in a pack of dogs: alpha male/team captain sets the tone.
The foot on fire is called the "Hot Foot" and everyone is just staring because they were the ones who set it on fire. You generally wad up some paper towels or other flammable shit and stick it to a guys shoe with gum without him noticing and then you set the thing on fire and see how long it takes him to notice. Theres no REAL danger there as a quick flick of his foot sends the wad of fire onto the concrete floor. And he WILL feel it before he starts to actually catch on fire and the flick of the foot is instinctual so its all gravy.
You can go onto the infield grass as a runner, but it's faster to take the turns wide. Also when between third base and home you want to stay in foul territory because if the batted ball hits you in fair territory, you're out; in foul territory it's just a foul ball. The rule about staying in the basepath is often misinterpreted; it defines the basepath as being a straight line between where the runner is when the fielder attempts to tag them, and the base they want to get to. Which means technically you can go wherever you want on the field as long as nobody tries to tag you, although you can be called out for "abandoning your attempt to run the bases", particularly if you leave the field.
pretty sure hotfoots are still a thing. I'm sure they watch and would put it out before it did serious damage; uniforms are polyester which isn't very flammable.
@DNReacts love the videos. You guys have such great comedic chemistry. 😂 Top notch. Fan from canada 🇨🇦 I know this isnt baseball related, but could you please do a reaction to mugsy bogues. He is the shortest player in nba history at only 5'3". And had a great long career. Love your nba takes!!!
